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Date of PublicationNovember 30, 1969
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Translator's PrefaceAcknowledgementIntroduction
PAPERS OF STCHERBATSKY
A BUDDHIST PHILOSOPHER ON MONOTHEISMText, Translation with
Critical Introduction of Ngrjuna's
Isvara-kartrtva-pirakrtih-visnofy-ekakartrtva-nirkarana l
ON THE HISTORY OF MATERIALISM IN INDIA 12
THEORY OF POETRY IN INDIA 18
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF ANCIENT INDIA 42
'ESTABLISHMENT OP THE EXISTENCE OF OTHER MINDS'Free Translation
of Dharmakirti's
Santanantara-siddhiwith Vinltadeva's ,'
.?Santriantara-siddhi-ka,' - 55
APPENDICES
A. Select Bibliography 93B. Arehive Materials ' 97
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
Thanks to Dr. I. D. Serebryakov, we now possess a fine selection
of the outstandingcontributions of the Russian IndologiSts of ther
19th and early 20th centuries, which,as edited and annotated by him
is published under the title Izbrannye trudy
russkikhIndologov-filologov (Moscow, 1962). Stcherbatsky's paper on
Scientific Achievementsof Ancient India has been translated by me
from this^y^J^e^^.^s^.jjregards the otherpapers included here,
thanks are due to Prof. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya who,on his last
visit to Russia, had the vision and the initiative to procure the
microfilms oftheir Russian originals with a view to study and
publish them.
In translating these papers; I have been fully aware of the
presumptuousness of thetask. And I might not have taken it up, if
it were not for the boundless encouragementand learned guidance of
Professor Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya himselfwho, withhis first-hand
knowledge of the work of Soviet Indologists, was the most
appropriateperson to guide such a project. In the midst of his
manifold activities, he very kindlyscrutinised the manuscript,
rectified my errors and suggested suitable revisions. Andfor this,
I cannot adequately express my profound gratitude to him. The
errors, whichstill survive, are obviously due to my own
inadequacies. * . . '*
Professor Chattopadhyaya wa!s also kind enough to accede to my
request for acomprehensive Introduction to this volume.
. I am also indebted to Professor Mrinalkanti Gangopadhyaa of
Vidyasagar College,Calcutta, for kindly going through the entire
mauscript and making very useful suggestions.
CalcuttaNovember 30, 1969 ' Harish C. Gupta
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Among the innumerable Soviet friends and scholars from whom I
have receivedhelp and active support in this venture, I am
particularly anxious to express my deepgratitude to Professor V. V.
Balabushevich, Professor V. I. KaVyanov, Dr. I. D. Sere-bryakov,
Dr. E. E. Tyomkin, Dr. A. D. Littman, Dr. G M. Bongard-Levin and
Dr. N P.Anikeev. I would also like to take this opportunity to
thank the members of the Instituteof Philosophy. Academy of Scinces
USSR, on whose kind invitation I had the opportunityof visiting the
Soviet Union in 196$ and of meeting the Soviet philosophers and
Indologists.
". . 9Apart from Sri Harish C. Guptawho insists on putting some
highsounding words
about me in his Translator's Preface and thereby makes it most
embarrassing for me evento acknowledge the elementary fact that
without his help it would have been simply absurdfor me to work on
this project/ am most gratefi to Ifypfe$$or -Mrinalkanti
Gango-padhyaya9 Dr. Mahadevprasad Saha and Dr. Alaka\
Chattopadhyaya for help in variousforms.
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya
